STUDY: WAIVERS LEAVE BEHIND AT-RISK STUDENTS
By PHILIP ELLIOTT FILE – In this April 30, 2013, file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, reads to preschool children at the Cross Cultural Family Center in San Francisco.…
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WESTERN LEADERS MULL MILITARY RESPONSE IN SYRIA
By LORI HINNANT French President Francois Hollande, left, arrives with Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault at a government seminar held at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday Aug. 19, 2013.(AP Photo/Remy…
CIVIL RIGHTS AND IMMIGRATION HISTORY CONNECTED
By DEEPTI HAJELA FILE – In this Oct. 3, 1965, file photo U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson sits at his desk on Liberty Island in New York Harbor as he signs…
SANCTIONS BITING BUT IRAN NOT BUDGING
By MARJORIE OLSTER FILE – In this Aug. 15, 2013, file photo, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks during the debate on the proposed Cabinet at the parliament, in Tehran, Iran.…
FRANCE: FORCE AN OPTION IN SYRIA
By ELAINE GANLEY This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens trying…
AP INTERVIEW: TOP IRAN ADVISER REACHES OUT TO WEST
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 photo, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gives an interview to The Associated…
IMMIGRATION CAMPAIGN PASSES BY SOME IN GOP
By ERICA WERNER FILE – In this June 28, 2012 file photo Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., speaks at a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington. As immigration advocates…
CHICAGO SCHOOL CLOSINGS WORRY POOR NEIGHBORHOODS
By DON BABWIN In this Aug. 6, 2013 photo, satellite classrooms at the vacant Guggenheim Elementary School building show disrepair and vandalism in Chicago. In the year since Guggenheim School…